Austria....

[ChrisJC]

Here is a reference to a German miner Augsburg and connected with the Tyrol. This book is about mediaeval mining in Wales, but he is more famously associated with the Lake District.

Chris.

 

[honei]

thanks for your Infos! Wow!!

 

[honei]

Predecessor of today's railroad ...

Wooden tracks for the "spurnagelhunt" ...
here a double track station in an old quarry ....

(unfortunately no longer accessible)

DSC_0111.jpg by Lu Pics, auf Flickr

 

[honei]

Another good photo, and it looks like British miners were not alone in their habit of leaving old shoes and clogs behind when they finished working a mine!

no  .... here's another copy ... wooden sole / leather

(unfortunately no longer accessible)

DSC_0100.jpg by Lu Pics, auf Flickr

 

[honei]

steps in an very old coffin level....

this is not a stairway....there were a few miners at work at the same time....

20211208-HLP_6985-2.jpg by Lu Pics, auf Flickr

 

[Fulk]

I like this latest picture of 'steps' ? but do you think that it would be better if you cropped the out-of-focus light on the left-hand side (and maybe a bit off the right to balance it)?